ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,714, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ARIEL SCIENTIFIC INNOVATIONS LTD. (Ariel, Israel) and BAR-ILAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD. (Ramat Gan, Israel).
"Data compression and encryption algorithm" was invented by Dana Shapira (Modiin, Israel) and Shmuel Tomi Klein (Rehovot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a compression scheme comprising encryption, comprising: receiving, as input, data comprising a plurality of data elements; constructing a Huffman tree coding representation of the input data based on a known encryption key, wherein the Huffman tree comprises nodes that are compression codes having compressi...